FC Aktobe

FC Aktobe

Full name	Football Club Aktobe Ақтөбе Футбол Клубы
Founded	1967
Ground	Aktobe Central Stadium Aktobe, Kazakhstan (Capacity: 13,500)
Chairman	Sagat Ensegenuly
Manager	Vladimir Mukhanov
League	Kazakhstan Premier League
2010	2nd
Home colours Away colours

FC Aktobe (Kazakh: Ақтөбе Футбол Клубы) are a Kazakh football club based at the Central Stadium in Aktobe. Current members and four-time champions of the Kazakhstani Premier League, they also won the country's second level league – First Division – in 2000.

Name history

• 1967: Founded as Aktyubinets
• 1996: Renamed Aktobemunai
• 1997: Renamed Aktobe
• 2000: Renamed Aktobe-Lento
• 2005: Renamed Aktobe once again

League results

Achievements

• Kazakhstan Premier League
  • Winners (4): 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
  • Runners-up (2): 2006, 2010

• Kazakhstan Cup
  • Winners (1): 2008
  • Runners-up (1): 1994

• Kazakhstan Super Cup
  • Winners (2): 2008, 2010

• Kazakhstan First Division
  • Winners (1): 2000

• Commonwealth of Independent States Cup
  • Runners-up (2): 2009, 2010

European Cup History

Club bus

Aktobe became national champions for the first time in 2005, gaining a place in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League 2006/07.

However, they did not manage to advance through the First qualifying round, after losing to Latvian champions FK Liepājas Metalurgs 1–2 on aggregate.

They qualified for the UEFA Cup the following season and started positively with a 1–0 win over SV Mattersburg in the first leg of their first qualfying round tie. However, the return leg in Austria saw a 4–2 victory for the home side and thus Aktobe's elimination from the competition.

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2006–07	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Latvia	Liepājas Metalurgs	1–1	0–1	1–2
2007–08	UEFA Cup	1Q	Austria	Mattersburg	1–0	2–4	3–4
2008–09	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Moldova	Sheriff Tiraspol	1–0	0–4	1–4
2009–10	UEFA Champions League	2Q	Iceland	FH	2–0	4–0	6–0
		3Q	Israel	Maccabi Haifa	0–0	3–4	3–4
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	Play-off	Germany	Werder Bremen	0–2	3–6	3–8
2010–11	UEFA Champions League	2Q	Georgia	Olimpi Rustavi	2–0	1–1	3–1
		3Q	Israel	Hapoel Tel Aviv	1–0	1–3	2–3
2010–11	UEFA Europa League	Play-off	Netherlands	AZ	2–1	0–2	2–3
2011–12	UEFA Europa League	2Q	Hungary	Kecskeméti	0–0	1–1	1–1
		3Q	Russia	Alania Vladikavkaz	1–1	1–1	2–2 (2–4 PSO)

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 4 DF Yevgeny Azamatov (limit) 5 DF Pyotr Badlo 8 DF Samat Smakov (captain) 10 MF Marat Khairullin 12 DF Yuri Mokrousov 14 MF Aslan Darabayev 19 FW Sergei Lisenkov (limit) 23 DF Yuri Logvinenko 32 MF Darko Maletić

No. Position Player 55 GK Andrei Sidelnikov 70 FW Zoran Kostić DF Arūnas Klimavičius DF Dmitri Yevstigneyev MF Vitali Yevstigneyev GK Zhasur Narzikulov MF Ruslan Kenetayev MF Vladimir Vukajlović FW Anton Zemlianukhin

Reserve team

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 2 DF Artyom Podlegayev 3 MF Vadim Podlegayev 16 GK Rustem Kinzhaliyev 22 FW Maksat Kurmashev 26 MF Roman Oraz 27 FW Abylaikhan Totai 31 FW Yevgeny Dyadenko 33 DF Mirambek Muktarov 34 GK Marat Duisebayev 37 MF Yevgeny Zverev 39 MF Sabit Kuzhnazarov

No. Position Player 43 DF Artyom Nudnenko 44 MF Yernar Zhalbyrov 45 FW Damir Baimagambetov 47 MF Ivan Perepelitsyn 49 MF Baurzhan Abatov 77 DF Dmitri Miroshnichenko 81 DF Rinat Alzhanov 90 MF Almas Ibrashov 92 DF Aidar Karabalin 99 FW Azamat Kyzylbayev

See also

• Kazakhstan football clubs in European cups

External links

• Official website
• Fan site